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1 Matthew K. Sniffen, Florida's Obligation to the Seminole Indians: A Plea for Justice 1 (1917)

handle is hein.amindian/flobiga0001 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. ii-Second Series-Soool INDIAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION, 995 DREXEL BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PA., February 20, 1917. FLORIDA'S OBLIGATION TO THE SEMINOLE INDIANS A PLEA FOR JUSTICE BY M. K. SNIFFEN Secretary of Indian Rights Association The sympathy and co-operation of the people of the United States are earnestly desired in support of a move- ment of the Florida people, led by Mrs. Minnie Moore-Will- son, of Kissimmee, to secure from the State lands for the Florida Seminole Indians-for the problem is now very largely a State affair, so far as land is concerned. Last winter I made a pretty extensive overland trip through that section of Florida where the Seminole Indians dwell-the Everglades and the Big Cypress region, properly termed by Mrs. Willson as the least known Wilderness of America. For the first part of the trip Mr. Joseph Elkin- ton, of our Executive Committee, accompanied me, and we were fortunate in having with us Mr. J. M. Willson, Jr., who is personally known to many of these Indians, and through him we not only secured a competent guide (Billy Bowlegs), but were courteously received at the various camps that we visited in the Everglades. To give a detailed account of what I saw and observed is impossible within the limits of this pamphlet, and it will not be attempted. To describe the present condition and needs of the Florida Seminole Indians is not a difficult task, once the uninviting country where they exist has been visited. To recall the wrongs and outrages from which these Red Patriots have suffered at the hands of the United States Government, however, would require volumnes. Two nota- able books on this phase of the situation are already in Reproduction by Permmission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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